Now that’s how you hold a demonstration.
Demonstrators temporarily shut down two large malls in St. Louis on Black Friday – one of the busiest shopping days of the year – to protest a grand jury’s recent decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Several stores lowered their security doors or locked entrances as at least 200 protesters sprawled onto the floor while chanting, “Stop shopping and join the movement” at the Galleria mall in Richmond Heights, about 10 miles south of Ferguson.
The protest prompted authorities to close the mall for about an hour Friday afternoon, while a similar protest of about 50 people had the same effect at West County Mall in nearby Des Peres.
The protests were among the largest in the country on Black Friday, along with rallies in Chicago, New York, Seattle, northern California and elsewhere.
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